Example sentences of "[prep] [art] century [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | do they want to be part of the mystique of the century of the common man or to be an institutional monarchy ; to ride , as it were , in a glass coach or on bicycles ; to provide the tabloids with a running serial or to live simply and unaffectedly among their subjects like the Dutch and Scandinavian royal families . |
| 2 | Prejudices among critics in the latter part of the century toward the labouring class manifest themselves in an amusing ‘ Proclamation ’ appearing in The Monthly Review in 1778 : |
| 3 | Building on the proposed reservoir wo n't begin until the end of the century at the earliest . |
| 4 | This effort , as far as the administrative machinery was concerned , was initiated by the French advisers who came to Spain in the early years of the century with the first Bourbon king , Philip V ; later it was encouraged by Choiseul , who saw in the effective mobilization of the resources of his ally the means to defeat England and lay the foundations of a Franco-Spanish world power . |
| 5 | Putting together some of the memories and matching them with photographs where possible , I have tried to give a flavour of life in Bishop 's Castle from the turn of the century to the 1920s . |
| 6 | In an extraordinary passage towards the end of the book , amplified in discussion at Marxism 90 in a debate specifically convened to discuss Modernism and Postmodernism , Callinicos described his experience of walking around an art gallery : ‘ I have often been struck by the tedium that overcomes one while walking through a gallery of twentieth-century painting arranged in chronological order as one moves from the excitement of the early part of the century to the desperate and all too frequently sterile iconoclasm of recent artists ' ( p. 161 ) . |
| 7 | From the end of the eighteenth century with the debate on over-population and the hyperbreeding of the poor , sexuality pervades the social consciousness : from the widespread discussions of the birthrate , deathrate , life expectancy and fertility in the statistical forays of the century to the urgent controversies over public health , housing , birth control and prostitution . |
| 8 | Nuclear power remains a very sensitive area in the Netherlands and little expansion is probable for the rest of the century beyond the current power stations at Dodewaard and Borssele . |
| 9 | Thomas Hardy 's reputation at the beginning of the century as the greatest living English novelist coincided with a general awakening of interest in the English countryside . |
| 10 | La Rochelle , for example , established by a pariage agreement between Duke William X of Aquitaine and Louis VI of France in 1130 , grew in the second half of the century into the chief port for the export of Gascon wines to England ; the prospect of employment attracted immigrants , the settlement became a substantial town . |
| 11 | This is the title of an excellent book recently written and published by Janet Preshous ( society member ) dealing with life in Bishop 's Castle from the turn of the century until the 1920's . |
| 12 | Seventy early Buddhist paintings from the twelfth to thirteenth centuries , found at the turn of the century by the Russian Imperial Geographical Society in the burial stupa of Khara Khoto on the silk route , have been loaned by the Hermitage Museum . |
| 13 | It was first worked on at the turn of the century by the American psychologist , E. L. Thorndike , and more recently by another American psychologist , B. F. Skinner , and many others . |
| 14 | As far as any of them knew , the last elephant fights had taken place around the turn of the century in the princely states of Rajputana ; and as for partridge fights , said my friends , those sorts of Mughal traditions had all died out at Partition . |
| 15 | This principle was recognised and sanctioned by the House of Lords at the turn of the century in the leading case of Salomon v Salomon & Co Ltd [ 1897 ] AC 22 . |
| 16 | Similar feelings were at work to some extent in the later decades of the century in the Scottish Highlands , both a cause and a result of the growing prominence of Scottish regiments in the British army . |
| 17 | A quarter of a century of the Big Yin . |
| 18 | This trend continued in succeeding years so that during the three-quarters of a century between the first ( 1719 ) and the fifth ( 1795 ) official censuses , the Russian population of Siberia increased by almost two and a half times , from 169,000 adult males to 412,000 , at a time when the population of the empire as a whole less than doubled . |
| 19 | For three-quarters of a century from the 1650s successive holders of this post , John de Witt , Gaspar Fagel and Anthonie Heinsius , acted in effect as foreign ministers , and were thus among the most important figures on the European political stage . |
| 20 | A quarter of a century after the first American military advisers were sent to Saigon , the moment had come . |
| 21 | Jeff Dujon in action against Worcestershire early in 1984 , warming up for a century in the Old Trafford Test . |
| 22 | This has come about because southern politics were so dominated by the Democratic party in the century after the Civil War that many of its Senators and Representatives faced sterner re-election contests in the Primary elections within their own party ( i.e. for the right to stand for the Democrats again ) than they did against the Republicans in the election itself . |
| 23 | Wage differentials notwithstanding , the nominal wages of London 's skilled men did not much move over the century until the last decade . |
| 24 | There had been a staggering decrease in difficulty over a century in the largest Swedish daily , Dagens Nyheter , which roughly corresponded to the difference between children 's books and adult literature . |